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Complex social behaviour can select for variability in visual features: a case study in Polistes wasps.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Sept 2004

Tibbetts Elizabeth A

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The ability to recognize individuals is common in animals; however, we know little about why the phenotypic variability necessary for individual recognition has evolved in some animals but not others. One possibility is that natural selection favours variability in some social contexts but not in others. Polistes fuscatus wasps have variable facial and abdominal markings used for individual recognition within...

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PMID: 15347520
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2784
PMCID: PMC1691814

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